A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticism Provides stheoretically informed critical essays on nineteenth-century and Victorian literature, by major internationally recognized scholarsChapters provide detailed close readings of the work of J Hillis Miller, Thomas Hardy, Walter Pater, William Michael Rossetti, George Gissing, Charles Dickens, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Joseph ConradShowcases a major new essay by J Hillis Miller, as well as a previously unpublished interview with Miller Reading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad. At the same time, the assembled group of internationally recognised scholars engages with Miller’s work, influence and significance in the study of that era. The volume includes original work by Miller and interviews with him. Although J. Hillis Miller writes compellingly about a wide range of topics in literary studies and critical theory, he remains one of our great critics of Victorian literature. Exploring this achievement in diverse ways, this Festschrift also includes new discussions by Miller of Hardy, Trollope and Dickens. ― Jonathan Culler, Cornell University The originality of this book is not only in its interdisciplinary and theoretically informed ideas and arguments, but also in the ways in which it combines theoretical and literary writing with creative, auto-ethnographic reflections and practice. ― Nicole Anderson, Macquarie University A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticismReading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad. At the same time, the assembled group of internationally recognised scholars engages with Miller s work, influence and significance in the study of that era. The volume includes original work by Miller and interviews with him. Julian Wolfreys is the author and editor of numerous books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and literary theory. He is most recently the author of Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture. He is working at present on a study of the fragment in Jacques Derrida and Virginia Woolf.Monika Szuba has published extensively on Scottish literature and is the author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White (Edinburgh University Press). She is the co-editor with Julian Wolfreys of the Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature. A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticismReading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad. At the same time, the assembled group of internationally recognised scholars engages with Miller’s work, influence and significance in the study of that era. The volume includes original work by Miller and interviews with him.Julian Wolfreys is the author and editor of numerous books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and literary theory. He is most recently the author of Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture. He is working at present on a study of the fragment in Jacques Derrida and Virginia Woolf.Monika Szuba has published extensively on Scottish literature and is the author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White (Edinburgh University Press). She is the co-editor with Julian Wolfreys of the Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature. Julian Wolfeys is Professor of English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, where he is also Director of the Centre for Studies in Literature. He is author and editor of more than 40 books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature and literary theory. Most recently he has published Dickens’s London and The Derrida Wordbook , both with Edinburgh University Press. He recently published his first novel, Silent Music . Monika Szuba is Associate Professor in Literature at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Gdańsk. Her research is concerned with modern and contemporary literature informed by Environmental Humanities, with particular interest in phenomenology. She is the author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), co-editor of Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination: Early Modern to Late Modern (Brill, 2022), The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature (Palgrave, 2019) and Reading Victorian Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), and ed